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Positions along the truss can be measured from the left, the centre or the right, whichever matches your drawing.

Print a QR sticker for every case from the production page (Case stickers), on A4 label sheets in three sizes or a 62 mm label printer. Each sticker belongs to one case in one truck and carries a number for when the code gets scuffed. In Load Out the crew tap Scan and point their phone at each case as it goes on: it ticks the case, beeps, and stops them if the case belongs on another truck. Put a sticker on the wrong case? Change it from the truck editor by its number.

Trailers from Truck'N Roll and Stagetruck, with dimensions and weights checked by the carriers themselves. The vehicle library is sorted by region, one row per vehicle.

Say whether the rig hangs over people and whether the hoists are D8 or D8+, and the rating TrussLoad works to follows from it. Every figure now links to the hoist maker's own page.

One box in the header to send feedback straight to the TourLoad team: something broken, something missing, something you'd like.

The side panels start folded and are tidier, and the Snake option now decides how a data run snakes across the screen.

Every side panel in the truck editor can be minimised, for more room on the 3D view.

Zoom in on a screen, and choose your own colours for each phase.

Sign in and sign up now open over the homepage instead of taking you to another page.

A clean header and one row of truck buttons when you open a production on your phone.

Move between a production's trucks without leaving the truck editor. The walkthrough is now called Guide, and the header is slimmer.

Each truck on the production page shows a small 3D preview of its load, so you can see which is which at a glance.

Set the maximum watts for each panel type, lay circuits over the screen as a second layer, and feed them from Socapex fan-outs or single lines, with phases in Socapex line order and coloured by region. The power plan prints with the patch plan.

If weight sits outside the end motors, the truss can't hang level, so TrussLoad now says Unstable instead of showing figures that look reassuring. The total suspended weight is shown beside the sum of the point loads, and the print sheet explains why they differ.

The dashboard, project cards and crew view no longer run wider than a phone's screen, and the crew view's footer fits every phone.

Settings now holds your profile, and Truck Pack has its own settings page. The account menu is shorter for it.

A pencil beside each truck's name on the production page renames it without opening it.

The TourLoad shop is open at tourload.com/swag: T-shirts and more, with checkout handled by our Shopify store.

Instead of inviting the crew one by one, copy a single join link from the Load out panel and drop it in the crew's group chat. Everyone who signs up through it lands straight in the production.

A new Overview on the crew's phones lists every truck they're on and how far each has got. Crew on more than one of your productions see every load out you have running, together.

Search for any town or village rather than a short list of cities, add trips home with a date and one tap per leg, and see an estimate of your travel CO₂, which you can leave off your recap if you'd rather.

Every new person who accepts your invitation counts, crew invites from Load out included. Reach 20 and we post you a TourLoad sticker pack; reach 50 and it's a T-shirt.

A new tool for rigging. Put the weight on a truss and see the load at each motor point and into the roof, compared across 500 kg, 1 t and 2 t motors, with CM Lodestar, Liftket and Chainmaster hoists to choose from. Save your rigs, print a weight schedule, and switch between metric and imperial. Reference only: every drawing says it needs a qualified rigger or structural engineer to sign it off.

Each truck times itself from the first case on to the last, so you can see how long every load took. Crew and the production office can leave notes on a truck for that load out, and everyone on it sees them.

The plan view on the crew's phones now shows every tier of the truck in one view they can pinch, drag and zoom, so a case boxed in on the floor is still easy to find.

Invite your crew to a production as Load out. They sign up and get just the trucks: in 3D, or as a plan of every tier they can pinch and zoom, with a list to move between trucks. Start a load out on the day and they press and hold a case to tick it into the truck. Every tick shows on every phone within seconds, with who loaded it, and you watch each truck fill from the production page. Each load out starts blank, so the next show does too.

Signing in now opens a dashboard: Truck Pack, Atlas and Screen Mapper side by side, the trucks and screens you were last working on, your plan and what has changed. A header across every page takes you between them. The Truck Pack project list has moved to its own tab.

Each production has a loading order sheet beside the labels: numbered, with tick boxes, stack by stack, front to back. Stacks are listed the way they are built, on the forks outside the trailer and walked on as one.

A new tool for LED video walls. Build a screen from real panel types (the library has close to nine hundred tiles), click an input panel and an output panel and the data run between them is laid for you, check the ports against your processor, map the screens onto the canvas, and print a patch plan with your logo, your contact details and the tour's artwork on it.

Cases of mixed heights could make a trailer read as four tiers when it was three high. A case is now in tier two because there is one case under it, whatever the heights.

Removing a bar or strap left a gap where it had been. The cargo behind it now moves forward again, exactly as it moved back when the restraint went in.

The restraint panel lists each face down the trailer once, with every tier standing at it. One tick fits a bar or a strap at all of them, and a face that is only partly done says so.

The notes on how the figures are estimated print once for the tour rather than once per truck, and a new overview page shows every trailer from above. The item manifest has left the printed report and downloads as a spreadsheet instead, ready for a carnet.

Aiming a case at the top of a stack three or more high could drop it on the deck instead. It now lands where it was aimed, and lines up beside anything already sitting on the case below.

What has changed in Tourload, and when, newest first.

If a session expired while you were working, a save could fail with nothing on screen to tell you — the plan looked saved and was not. Failed saves are now reported, with what to do about it, and nothing on screen is lost when one happens.

Two identical cases would be dropped into a new row rather than completing the half-built stacks already in front of them. Auto load now fills what is on the truck before it starts anything new, so the plan comes out the way somebody would actually build it.

It was possible to drop a third case onto a stack there was no way to physically reach. The drag now refuses it rather than drawing something nobody can build.

A shipping container has no axles, so the report no longer prints an axle section for one. It shows the two checks a container can actually fail instead.

The load plan now prints a full-width trailer for each tier and leaves the tractor unit off. The drawing a crew works from is bigger and there is less on the page that is not cargo.

Planning, saving and printing are free, with no limit on how many packs you keep. The plan is paid for what surrounds it: your own logo on the paperwork instead of ours, and bringing other people onto a production.

The angled view could draw two carts occupying the same space. It was the drawing that was wrong rather than the plan, but a picture you cannot trust is worse than no picture.

When a renewal fails the account stops saving, which it always did — but now it says so, in a sentence naming the reason, rather than refusing quietly and looking broken.

A hire company can publish its real case sizes and weights as a pack, and you install it into your own library in one go. The cases are marked as published by the supplier rather than estimated by us, so a plan built on them says where the numbers came from.

A visitor in the UK was shown a price in pounds and charged in dollars. Both figures are now fixed in Stripe, so the number on the page is the number on the card.

You choose when the invitation is sent. Somebody invited to view can open the plan and print it without being able to change what you built.

Auto load stacks two high by default and lowers where the floor runs out. That is now a preference you set on each truck rather than a rule, and you can still stack higher by hand as far as the roof and the case ratings allow.

A new account used to get its example cases as one long heap. They now arrive in folders, so the library makes sense before you have added anything of your own.